Avere Enables Government Agencies to Be Cloud Ready

Avere Systems, Inc., a provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, announced that its FXT Edge filers now support Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud, helping government agencies become compliant with the US federal government’s Cloud First policy without the need to overhaul their existing infrastructures.

The addition of support for two new key features, Secure Token Service (STS) and the Signature Version 4 Signing Process for S3 access, allows government agencies to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing. Agencies are able to move data between NAS and the cloud with low latency, performance and at a minimal cost while meeting security standards.

AWS introduced GovCloud in 2011 as a response to the US federal government’s Cloud First policy, which mandates that agencies begin to move at least some of their services to the cloud. GovCloud is isolated from other AWS Regions so that governments can keep workloads in the cloud while meeting specialized regulatory and compliance requirements.

Avere has introduced support for two new features to assist government agencies with their transition to the cloud – Secure Token Service (STS) and the Signature Version 4 Signing Process for S3 access. These features translate into enhanced security for organizations accessing their S3 data, ensuring that authentication credentials are periodically changed.

“With Avere and AWS GovCloud, government agencies can check the box of being cloud-enabled and can do so without overhauling their existing infrastructure,” said Scott Jeschonek, director of product management, Avere. “Until now there hasn’t been a technology that has offered a solution of this magnitude and ease for organizations needing to move data to AWS GovCloud. Avere makes it easy while offering a flexible, high-performance cloud file storage solution.“

Earlier this year, Avere announced support for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2.

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